On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 18:15:08 EDT, Stan Horwitz <[log in to unmask]>  said:
> On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Walker, Brand wrote:
>
> >Found it.  Sendmail had been retrograded to 8.11.6-27 by a semiautomated
> >process.  Restoring the 8.12.10 sendmail binary got things going again.
> >
> >Just thought someone somewhere might someday have a similar conundrum.
>
> A good habit to get into is to keep all locally installed software out of
> the path of the OS. We usually install our stuff in /usr/local so that if
> an OS upgrade results in installing outdated versionf of our software, we
> still have the stuff we prefer out of harm's way.

A good idea in general, but it isn't easy to do for Sendmail because a LOT
of code assumes that it lives in the "expected" places.

All sorts of things will break in evil and mysterious ways if /usr/sbin/sendmail
doesn't point to something useful, to the point that I believe both qmail
and postfix ship a /usr/sbin/sendmail replacement.